Title
A View of the Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus = Vue_ des Ruines du Temple de Bacchus. / Fabris pinx.t ; Arch.d Robertson fecit.
Creator
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd by P. Sandby & A. Robertson as the Act directs June 1st. 1777, [June 1 1777]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; platemark 31.5 x 56.2 , on sheet 32.5 x 57 cm.
Description
A man smokes under a tree by the sea, with three men on a boat leaving the shore in the foreground at left, visitors contemplating the ruins of a domed building beyond, and ships sailing on the Tyrrhenian sea near the Neapolitan coastline in the background at right.
Place
Naples (Italy)
Additional information
From a series of twenty-four sepia aquatints that appeared between 1777 and 1782 but that, as Abbey noted, might not have been originally intended as a set. The same author considers that, although the plates are linked together by their subject matter ('views in and near Naples'), by their association to Pietro Fabris as author of the original paintings and by the fact 'that they were all engraved either by Robertson or Sandby, while many of them were published by the two jointly', related plates could have been added to an initial collection of sixteen 'Views in Naples and other parts of Italy' by Sandby. The set in the King's Topographical Collection consists of twenty plates, of which eleven were published in 1777, four in 1778, and a further four in 1782, all after Fabris. The 1782 views are considerably larger.
Other persons
Robertson, Archibald, active 1765-1796, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.TAB.60.